Discovery Box2 Chronicles 1:3 
Context1:3 Solomon and the entire assembly went to the worship center 1 in Gibeon, for the tent where they met God 2 was located there, which Moses the Lord’s servant had made in the wilderness.
2 Chronicles 2:17
Context2:17 Solomon took a census 3 of all the male resident foreigners in the land of Israel, after the census his father David had taken. There were 153,600 in all.
2 Chronicles 3:1
Context3:1 Solomon began building the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem 4 on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David prepared at the threshing floor of Ornan 5 the Jebusite.
2 Chronicles 3:15
Context3:15 In front of the temple he made two pillars which had a combined length 6 of 52½ feet, 7 with each having a plated capital seven and one-half feet high. 8
2 Chronicles 4:3
Context4:3 Images of bulls were under it all the way around, ten every eighteen inches 9 all the way around. The bulls were in two rows and had been cast with “The Sea.”
2 Chronicles 4:13
Context4:13 the four hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments for the latticework of the two pillars (each latticework had two rows of these ornaments at the bowl-shaped top of the pillar),
2 Chronicles 5:1
Context5:1 When Solomon had finished constructing the Lord’s temple, he put the holy items that belonged to his father David (the silver, gold, and all the other articles) in the treasuries of God’s temple.
2 Chronicles 5:6
Context5:6 Now King Solomon and all the Israelites who had assembled with him went on ahead of the ark and sacrificed more sheep and cattle than could be counted or numbered. 10
2 Chronicles 5:10
Context5:10 There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb. 11 (It was there that 12 the Lord made an agreement with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.)
2 Chronicles 7:10
Context7:10 On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon 13 sent the people home. They left 14 happy and contented 15 because of the good the Lord had done for David, Solomon, and his people Israel.
2 Chronicles 8:13
Context8:13 He observed the daily requirements for sacrifices that Moses had specified for Sabbaths, new moon festivals, and the three annual celebrations – the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Temporary Shelters. 16
2 Chronicles 9:11
Context9:11 With the timber the king made steps 17 for the Lord’s temple and royal palace as well as stringed instruments 18 for the musicians. No one had seen anything like them in the land of Judah prior to that. 19 )
2 Chronicles 9:18
Context9:18 There were six steps leading up to the throne, and a gold footstool was attached to the throne. 20 The throne had two armrests with a statue of a lion standing on each side. 21
2 Chronicles 9:21
Context9:21 The king had a fleet of large merchant ships 22 manned by Huram’s men 23 that sailed the sea. Once every three years the fleet 24 came into port with cargoes of 25 gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks. 26
2 Chronicles 10:15
Context10:15 The king refused to listen to the people, because God was instigating this turn of events 27 so that he might bring to pass the prophetic announcement he had made 28 through Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat.
2 Chronicles 11:21
Context11:21 Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than his other wives and concubines. 29 He had eighteen wives and sixty concubines; he fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
2 Chronicles 12:9
Context12:9 King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and took away the treasures of the Lord’s temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made.
2 Chronicles 15:16
Context15:16 King Asa also removed Maacah his grandmother 30 from her position as queen mother 31 because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her Asherah pole and crushed and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
2 Chronicles 16:6
Context16:6 King Asa ordered all the men of Judah to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. 32 He used the materials to build up 33 Geba and Mizpah.
2 Chronicles 16:14
Context16:14 He was buried in the tomb he had carved out in the City of David. 34 They laid him to rest on a bier covered with spices and assorted mixtures of ointments. They made a huge bonfire to honor him. 35
2 Chronicles 17:2
Context17:2 He placed troops in all of Judah’s fortified cities and posted garrisons 36 throughout the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim that his father Asa had seized.
2 Chronicles 21:6
Context21:6 He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel, just as Ahab’s dynasty had done, for he married Ahab’s daughter. 37 He did evil in the sight of 38 the Lord.
2 Chronicles 21:19
Context21:19 After about two years his intestines came out because of the disease, so that he died a very painful death. 39 His people did not make a bonfire to honor him, as they had done for his ancestors. 40
2 Chronicles 22:1
Context22:1 The residents of Jerusalem 41 made his youngest son Ahaziah king in his place, for the raiding party that invaded the city with the Arabs had killed all the older sons. 42 So Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.
2 Chronicles 22:7
Context22:7 God brought about Ahaziah’s downfall through his visit to Joram. 43 When Ahaziah 44 arrived, he went out with Joram to meet Jehu son of Nimshi, whom the Lord had commissioned 45 to wipe out Ahab’s family. 46
2 Chronicles 24:7
Context24:7 (Wicked Athaliah and her sons had broken into God’s temple and used all the holy items of the Lord’s temple in their worship of the Baals.)
2 Chronicles 24:22
Context24:22 King Joash disregarded 47 the loyalty his father Jehoiada had shown him and killed Jehoiada’s 48 son. As Zechariah 49 was dying, he said, “May the Lord take notice and seek vengeance!” 50
2 Chronicles 26:10-11
Context26:10 He built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns, for he owned many herds in the lowlands 51 and on the plain. He had workers in the fields and vineyards in the hills and in Carmel, 52 for he loved agriculture. 53
26:11 Uzziah had an army of skilled warriors trained for battle. They were organized by divisions according to the muster rolls made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer under the authority of Hananiah, a royal official.
2 Chronicles 26:20
Context26:20 When Azariah the high priest and the other priests looked at 54 him, there was a skin disease on his forehead. They hurried him out of there; even the king 55 himself wanted to leave quickly because the Lord had afflicted him.
2 Chronicles 26:23
Context26:23 Uzziah passed away 56 and was buried near his ancestors 57 in a cemetery 58 belonging to the kings. (This was because he had a skin disease.) 59 His son Jotham replaced him as king.
2 Chronicles 27:2
Context27:2 He did what the Lord approved, just as his father Uzziah had done. 60 (He did not, however, have the audacity to enter the temple.) 61 Yet the people were still sinning.
2 Chronicles 28:18
Context28:18 The Philistines had raided the cities of Judah in the lowlands 62 and the Negev. They captured and settled in Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Soco and its surrounding villages, Timnah and its surrounding villages, and Gimzo and its surrounding villages.
2 Chronicles 29:15
Context29:15 They assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves. Then they went in to purify the Lord’s temple, just as the king had ordered, in accordance with the word 63 of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 29:24
Context29:24 Then the priests slaughtered them. They offered their blood as a sin offering on the altar to make atonement for all Israel, because the king had decreed 64 that the burnt sacrifice and sin offering were for all Israel.
2 Chronicles 30:17
Context30:17 Because many in the assembly had not consecrated themselves, the Levites slaughtered 65 the Passover lambs of all who were ceremonially unclean and could not consecrate their sacrifice to the Lord. 66
2 Chronicles 33:3
Context33:3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the stars in the sky 67 and worshiped 68 them.
2 Chronicles 33:9
Context33:9 But Manasseh misled the people of 69 Judah and the residents of Jerusalem so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed ahead of the Israelites.
2 Chronicles 33:15
Context33:15 He removed the foreign gods and images from the Lord’s temple and all the altars he had built on the hill of the Lord’s temple and in Jerusalem; he threw them outside the city.
2 Chronicles 34:11
Context34:11 They gave money to the craftsmen and builders to buy chiseled stone and wood for the braces and rafters of the buildings that the kings of Judah had allowed to fall into disrepair. 70
2 Chronicles 35:20
Context35:20 After Josiah had done all this for the temple, 71 King Necho of Egypt marched up to do battle at Carchemish on the Euphrates River. 72 Josiah marched out to oppose him.
2 Chronicles 35:22
Context35:22 But Josiah did not turn back from him; 73 he disguised himself for battle. He did not take seriously 74 the words of Necho which he had received from God; he went to fight him in the Plain of Megiddo. 75
2 Chronicles 36:13-14
Context36:13 He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him vow allegiance 76 in the name of God. He was stubborn and obstinate, and refused to return 77 to the Lord God of Israel. 36:14 All the leaders of the priests and people became more unfaithful and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations. 78 They defiled the Lord’s temple which he had consecrated in Jerusalem.
1 tn Or “high place.”
2 tn Heb “the tent of meeting of God.”
3 tn Heb “counted.”
4 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
5 tn In 2 Sam 24:16 this individual is called אֲרַוְנָא (“Aravna”; traditionally “Araunah”). The form of the name found here also occurs in 1 Chr 21:15; 18-28.
6 sn The figure given here appears to refer to the combined length of both pillars (perhaps when laid end-to-end on the ground prior to being set up; cf. v. 17); the figure given for the height of the pillars in 1 Kgs 7:15, 2 Kgs 25:17, and Jer 52:21 is half this (i.e., eighteen cubits).
7 tc The Syriac reads “eighteen cubits” (twenty-seven feet). This apparently reflects an attempt at harmonization with 1 Kgs 7:15, 2 Kgs 25:17, and Jer 52:21.
8 tn Heb “and he made before the house two pillars, thirty-five cubits [in] length, and the plated capital which was on its top [was] five cubits.” The significance of the measure “thirty-five cubits” (52.5 feet or 15.75 m, assuming a cubit of 18 inches) for the “length” of the pillars is uncertain. According to 1 Kgs 7:15, each pillar was eighteen cubits (27 feet or 8.1 m) high. Perhaps the measurement given here was taken with the pillars lying end-to-end on the ground before they were set up.
9 tn Heb “ten every cubit.”
10 tn Heb “And King Solomon and all the assembly of Israel, those who had been gathered to him, [were] before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle which could not be counted or numbered because of the abundance.”
11 sn Horeb is another name for Mount Sinai (cf. Exod 3:1).
12 tn Heb “in Horeb where.”
13 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Solomon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
14 tn The words “they left” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
15 tn Heb “good of heart.”
16 tn The Hebrew phrase הַסֻּכּוֹת[חַג] (khag hassukot, “[festival of] huts” [or “shelters”]) is traditionally known as the Feast of Tabernacles. The rendering “booths” (cf. NAB, NASB, NRSV) is probably better than the traditional “tabernacles” in light of the meaning of the term סֻכָּה (sukkah, “hut; booth”), but “booths” are frequently associated with trade shows and craft fairs in contemporary American English. The nature of the celebration during this feast as a commemoration of the wanderings of the Israelites after they left Egypt suggests that a translation like “temporary shelters” is more appropriate.
17 tn Heb “tracks.” The parallel text in 1 Kgs 10:12 has a different term whose meaning is uncertain: “supports,” perhaps “banisters” or “parapets.”
18 tn Two types of stringed instruments are specifically mentioned in the Hebrew text, the כִּנּוֹר (kinnor, “zither”) and נֶבֶל (nevel, “harp”).
19 tn Heb “there was not seen like these formerly in the land of Judah.”
20 tc The parallel text of 1 Kgs 10:19 has instead “and the back of it was rounded on top.”
21 tn Heb “[There were] armrests on each side of the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.”
22 tn Heb “for ships belonging to the king were going [to] Tarshish with the servants of Huram.” This probably refers to large ships either made in or capable of traveling to the distant western port of Tarshish.
23 tn Heb “servants.”
24 tn Heb “the fleet of Tarshish [ships].”
25 tn Heb “the ships of Tarshish came carrying.”
26 tn The meaning of this word is unclear; some suggest it refers to “baboons.” NEB has “monkeys,” NASB, NRSV “peacocks,” and NIV “baboons.”
27 tn Heb “because this turn of events was from God.”
28 tn Heb “so that the
29 sn Concubines were slave women in ancient Near Eastern societies who were the legal property of their master, but who could have legitimate sexual relations with their master. A concubine’s status was more elevated than a mere servant, but she was not free and did not have the legal rights of a free wife. The children of a concubine could, in some instances, become equal heirs with the children of the free wife. After the period of the Judges concubines may have become more of a royal prerogative (2 Sam 21:10-14; 1 Kgs 11:3).
30 tn Heb “mother,” but Hebrew often uses “father” and “mother” for grandparents and even more remote ancestors.
31 tn The Hebrew term גְּבִירָה (gÿvirah) can denote “queen” or “queen mother” depending on the context. Here the latter is indicated, since Maacah was the wife of Rehoboam and mother of Abijah.
32 tn Heb “and King Asa took all Judah and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its wood which Baasha had built.”
33 tn Heb “and he built with them.”
34 sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
35 tn Heb “and they burned for him a large fire, very great.”
36 tn Or perhaps, “governors.”
37 tn Heb “he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab did, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife.”
38 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”
39 tn Heb “and it was to days from days, and about the time of the going out of the end for the days, two, his intestines came out with his illness and he died in severe illness.”
40 tn Heb “and his people did not make for him a fire, like the fire of his fathers.”
41 map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.
42 tn Heb “for all the older [ones] the raiding party that came with the Arabs to the camp had killed.”
43 tn Heb “From God was the downfall of Ahaziah by going to Joram.”
44 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Ahaziah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
45 tn Heb “anointed.”
46 tn Heb “to cut off the house of Ahab.”
47 tn Heb “did not remember.”
48 tn Heb “his”; the referent (Jehoiada) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
49 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Zechariah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
50 tn Heb “and seek [ – ].” The direct object of “seek” is omitted in the Hebrew text but implied; “vengeance” is supplied for clarification.
51 tn Heb “Shephelah.”
52 tn Heb “workers and vinedressers in the hills and in Carmel.” The words “he had” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
53 tn Heb “for a lover of the ground he [was].”
54 tn Heb “turned toward.”
55 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
56 tn Heb “lay down with his fathers.”
57 tn Heb “fathers.”
58 tn Heb “a field of burial.”
59 tn Heb “for they said, ‘He had a skin disease.’”
60 tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the
61 tn Heb “except he did not enter the house of the
62 tn Heb “Shephelah.”
63 tn Heb “words” (plural).
64 tn Heb “said.”
65 tn Heb “were over the slaughter of.”
66 tn Heb “of everyone not pure to consecrate to the
67 tn The phrase כָל צְבָא הֲַשָּׁמַיִם (khol tsÿva’ hashamayim), traditionally translated “all the host of heaven,” refers to the heavenly lights, including stars and planets. In 1 Kgs 22:19 these heavenly bodies are pictured as members of the Lord’s royal court or assembly, but many other texts view them as the illegitimate objects of pagan and Israelite worship.
68 tn Or “served.”
69 tn Heb “misled Judah.” The words “the people of” are supplied in the translation for clarity. The Hebrew text uses the name “Judah” here by metonymy for the people of Judah.
70 tn Heb “of the houses that the kings of Judah had destroyed.”
71 tn Heb “After all this, [by] which Josiah prepared the temple.”
72 tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
73 tn Heb “and Josiah did not turn his face from him.”
74 tn Heb “listen to.”
75 map For location see Map1 D4; Map2 C1; Map4 C2; Map5 F2; Map7 B1.
76 tn Or “made him swear an oath.”
77 tn Heb “and he stiffened his neck and strengthened his heart from returning.”
78 tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”
